Steve Bullman

probably illegal to deny someone a break if they specifically ask for it. I forget what the set amount of time people are supposed to have.

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pic of the stump please

That’s pretty much standard. Although the site is on an old farmers field so we might get lucky

Wheres that?

I will talk to them about it

This was a great day out, and quite a show out on by Stihl. The hot saws were particularly impressive

In the process of buying a new build at the moment. I’m a bit concerned about the turfing aspect

This was backstage at the timbersports event. The black rolls are nothing more sinister than packaged lumps of wood for the spring board competition. The spade isn't an air spade, don't know what thats doing there. The Stihl barrier tape didn't have any measure markers on it so couldn't take a measurement of the circumference Hope that all helps! ?

Apparently the oldest tree on Blenheim estate at an estimated 1000 years

You should be more scared of earning less profit

They've been saying that for several years. It still keeps coming in though. You are probably still right mind

Did Muay Thai for 8 years when I was younger and loved it. Wish I wasn't so lazy and frail these days, or I might do it again

Interesting little piece I just came across on facebook.... 'You're having a few drinks in the garden with your friends, or a family BBQ, when a load of pesky wasps arrive to spoil the party. You haven't seen them all summer and then suddenly they're all over the place, annoying everybody, causing panic and helicopter hands. Sound familiar? August is the time of year when people start to ask 'what's the point of wasps?' The answer may surprise you. Did you know that there are approximately 9,000 species of wasp here in the UK? These include the parasitic wasps, some of which are so diminutive they are like pin heads. Of the 250 larger wasps which have have a stinger, the majority are solitary and cause no upset to humans. However, when we talk about wasps, we're almost certainly referring to the our nation's nemesis, the Common wasp (Vespula vulgaris). To understand why these wasps become really annoying this time of year, you first need to understand their life cycle. Common wasps live socially like bees but, unlike honey bees, they haven't evolved a way of storing food to allow the colony to survive the winter. In fact the only survivors are the young, fertilised queens who hibernate over winter. They emerge in the spring to build little walnut sized nests where they they lay around 20 eggs. The queen feeds the resulting larvae until around May, when they mature and become workers. Then she focuses on more egg-laying and the workers get on with feeding them, enlarging the nest as they go along. By this time of year the nest has grown to around 40cm in diameter, often larger, and that nest can contains up to 10,000 wasps! Then, in mid August and September, a dramatic change takes place. The queen quits her egg laying (save a few that will go on to be future queens and males to fertilise them) and no longer releases the pheromone that causes the workers to work. Basically, these workers are made redundant, and are left jobless and disorientated. And the problem for us is that, although adult wasps are insect predators, that meat is to feed the larvae not themselves. In their adult state wasps are not able to digest solid food and need sugary liquid to survive. Now, with fewer or no larvae to feed, they become uncontrollably and insatiably hungry. Wasps love easy food such as over ripe fruit and your fizzy drinks. Towards the end of their brief lives, their hunger drives them to search for easy sugar at exactly the time when we are more likely to be using our gardens and outdoor spaces for eating sweet things. The timing couldn't be better for them or worse for us. So why are those who panic and try to swat them away more likely to be stung than those who remain calm? Well the problem is that these redundant workers have their own pheromone, which helps protect the nest from attack earlier in the year, and that's essentially a chemical rallying cry to other workers that the nest is under attack. So when you swat that annoying wasp and it feels under attack, that rallying cry will go out. Suddenly it all kicks off, and loads more wasps will start arriving in aggressive 'red-mist' mode, fired up and ready to defend their nest. This is why the best advice is to stay calm. Think of it this way, from May that wasp has been working its socks off helping to keep things nice on planet earth. Now it’s going to die. So why not give it a break, save your swats, put a bowl of sugary drink somewhere out of your way, and let it go out on a nice sugar rush :-) At the very least don't kill it. What's the point of wasps? Without them it’s likely that human life would not survive because, in the absence of their role as predators, our planet would be overrun by even more damaging insects such as aphids, ants and caterpillars.'

Well you read my ladder article. Obviously a real climber wouldn't have needed a ladder for this though

FYI 12 measuring points and 6 sensors used on this one David

'In action' is a little bit different these days!! Thanks for catching my good side though ?

i'd want to be in the cockpit for that!

All these types of shows are expensive to get in, and rarely do you walk away thinking you got value for money. Turning up with a family is astronomical. Been to a few dog shows round this was recently, the last one we got to the gate and they wanted £8 each to get in...Now im not exactly tight, but you could see the entire area of the show from outside the cordon and it basically would have taken 10 minutes to walk around it.

Well if he's grumbling now the chances are he will leave without a pay rise. Seen it time and time again. Down to you to decide if you want to keep him or not

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You can't say that!

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Do you use doubled up quilted Andrex?